Really? How about when they decide that there really is no difference between a newly-manufactured stove and a previously-manufactured one, and then levy retroactive taxes on them for their alleged dangers? THEN they decide to guesstimate how much wood each stove is capable of burning and levy another tax on the owners based upon that? How much wood, exactly, is your wood stove or fireplace capable of burning?
My experience is that tax-estimators (Infernal Rectalvue Sphincterplumbers) ALWAYS estimate on the attitude of Whatever-Gets-The-Most-Taxes-In, and you will surely be SOL when that happens.
How much wood would an EPA-compliant woodstove burn,
if an EPA-compliant woodstove actually could burn wood.
I haven’t been through the whole thread yet, but the next step is to make it illegal to sell a house with a non-complying stove. This is already happening in some places.
http://www.deq.state.or.us/aq/burning/woodstoves/questions.htm#What_is_required